# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaffa-eliach
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:22:50.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaffa-eliach"
name: "Yaffa Eliach"
slug: "yaffa-eliach"
description: "Yaffa Eliach\n(May 31, 1935 – November 8, 2016) was an American historian, author, and scholar of Judaic studies and the Holocaust. In 1974, she founded the Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation and Research in Brooklyn, New York, which collected over 2,700 audio interviews of Holocaust survivors as well as thousands of physical artifacts. Eliach created the \"Tower of Faces\" made up by 1,500 photographs for permanent display at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C."
tagline: "Polish American historian, author, and scholar of Judaic studies and the Holocaust"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof'_yafa_Eliach.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-05-31"
deathDate: "2016-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Элиах, Яффа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يافا الياش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaffa Eliach"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9A"
    title: "יפה אליאך"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaffa_Eliach"
    title: "Yaffa Eliach"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaffa_Eliach"
    title: "Yaffa Eliach"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump